Brian Gosur

Advice and Strategies That Will Take You Out of This World

Writing Style – Write The Way You Talk

When I started in network marketing, I ran my warm market far far away from me. When my family and friends saw me coming, they ran in the other direction. Because I was never a pushy used car salesman type, needless to say, I never had many sales or recruits.

Then I discovered the Internet.I met a person who introduced me to Internet marketing. Marketing and generating leads by means of this fabulous new tool called the Internet, was great. I loved the Internet anyway, so why not use this format for my business purposes.

I learned some new marketing techniques and strategies using the Internet. I was generating leads and meeting some awesome people in the network marketing community. I really loved what I was doing.

One technique that I tried and fell in love with was article marketing. I loved to write, and now I could get a blog and start writing my articles for my business and my passions.

My first writing came on a very popular platform called hubpages. Many of you have probably heard of it or are writing on your own hubpages, but I didn’t know what to write about. My friend told me to write about things I was very passionate about. So I started to write. That was almost two years ago and one of my very first articles is still getting hits today.

I want to give you five quick  simple steps that will help you make your writing skills about you, your personality, and attract more people to you..

1. Write The Way You Talk

Good writing is like a conversation between the writer and the reader. So when you’re writing, think about how you would explain what your saying to a close friend who is sitting right across from you. Use the same words, the same stories, that you would normally use to explain your points.

2. Read Out Loud To Yourself

You should be proof reading your articles before you publish them, and when you do, read them out loud to yourself, as if you were reading them to a congregation. As you read you will stumble over the parts that you need to fix. They will sound awkward and won’t have that nice flow. Do this until your article sounds good and flows smoothly.

3. Ask Someone To Read It For You

This is where my wife comes in. I ask her to read my articles before I get ready to publish them. She is my best critic. If she see something that doesn’t sound right, I better take a look at it. This should be someone that you know will give your writing an honest scrutiny.

4. Use The Same Words You Talk With Every Day

When I first started to write and blog, I tried to use big long sophisticated words. I tried to be someone I wasn’t. Just be yourself. Your true personality will come out when you start writing this way, and people will just be attracted to you because of who you really are. Remember, not everyone will like who you are, and that’s ok too.

5. Just Start Writing

Don’t worry about the grammar, writing styles, and punctuation, just start writing. Get your main thoughts and ideas down, and don’t worry about anything else. Once your done, than you can go back and edit your spelling and grammar errors. Remember, you and a close friend will be proof reading it before it goes out.

Have fun writing and expressing your thoughts, ideas and value to enhance your readers and followers lives. Remember to always be yourself, because people will always be attracted to the real you, and not to someone you are pretending to be.

Patience is Required When Prospecting

How many of you love fishing? I am not an avid fishermen, but I do enjoy getting out and relaxing in a boat with a fishing rod in my hand. I may only do it once or twice a year. It’s not for the love of the sport, it is more for the relaxing time that I go. The camaraderie that you have with a couple of good friends and the occasional fish that you might catch. I enjoy that.

There is one thing that you must have while you are fishing. That’s patience. If you struggle with patience you will not make a good fisherman or a good prospector for your business. Fishing is a lot like prospecting.

Lets examine this further. First you have to go out to the right spot. You just don’t go to where you want to go. You have to go where the fish are. You see, when you are prospecting you may have to get out of your comfort zone and go to where your target market is. Like we said before, talking to grandma and Uncle John are probably not going to get you very far in your prospecting attempts. Oh they will listen to you, but your bank account will soon run dry.

When you see a certain marketing strategy, that you really like to do, is not working out for you, change the location. Or try a different marketing technique. Don’t get frustrated and do what the 95% of all network marketers do after about sixty days of working their business. Quit! “This isn’t working for me, I quit!” Patience is required when prospecting.

Try a different spot on the lake. Use a different lure or maybe these fish like worms?  The fish are out there. You just have to be patient. Find them, and use the right bait. You’ll catch em.

One example of this is when I first started video marketing. I was not a good candidate for the screen. At least that’s what I thought. I was nervous and fumbled my words, but I keep working at it. Practiced what I would say before I went in front of the camera. (You don’t want to be reading a scrip.) Finally I put my first video out and I had more people say how good my video was. I thought I was terrible. Sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone. Try different marketing techniques, even if you are uncomfortable with them.

Ever catch a small fish, or one that just wasn’t right? What did you do with that fish? Throw em back in the water?  Sometimes you have to do that. A person in your organization just doesn’t have it or wants to leave for this, that, and the other reason. Let em go. Throw them back. There are more and bigger fish in the lake. It’s the big fish that your looking for anyway.

Remember, once you learn the art of marketing and prospecting, it doesn’t matter what kind of business that you are in. You will be able to find the fish. You will have an arsenal of lures to attract the right fish to you, and you will have the right strategies and techniques to catch those fish and bring them into your boat.

Be patient! Fishing takes time, and so does prospecting. Remember. Quitters never win, and winners never quit.

Attraction Marketing Rule #4

Rule number four for the implementation of attraction marketing to your business is marketing and prospecting. You must spend a good majority of your time to this purpose. Most people fall apart at this point. This is the life blood of your business. This is what pays the bills. Without marketing you won’t have prospects and without signing the prospects you won’t have the money to put into your bank account.

First there’s marketing. How many sources are you using to market your business? If you are just talking to family and friends, that’s one source. Making cold calls is another. If you are only doing one or two different types of marketing techniques, you are limiting yourself to the people you are targeting. How effective will your marketing be. You see,  people respond to different things.

Have you ever heard of Google? The number one website in the world. What about Yahoo? The number two website in the world. You Tube? The third largest website in the world. Maybe you’ve heard of Face Book. Face Book, with 350 million users, is the fifth largest website in the world. Let me ask you a question. What kind of presence do you have on these, the largest websites in the world? If you don’t, why not? These are only four of the many sites that you could be marketing on.

Most people only remember the first word in network marketing. Yes they call all there family and friends and network  like crazy. But what happens when you run out of these people to talk too?  It’s not if it will happen, it’s when it will happen. Your warm market is going to dry up. Then you will have no choice but to learn how to utilize the second word, marketing.

Most people jump into their business without a clue as to how to market. Would you jump into a 747, sit in the cockpit of the plane, and expect to fly that aircraft? I don’t think so. So why do you think you can start a business and without any knowledge of how to market, expect to carry your business into profitability. Not going to happen.

When you learn how to market, it doesn’t matter what kind of business you have. When you learn how to market, you will be able to separate yourself from all the other peddlers. That’s why those that understand marketing can come into your business, and within months, shoot right up to the top of the leaders.

Think of marketing like food. If you don’t eat your body becomes weak and unresponsive. The same is true if you don’t learn marketing. Your bank account will become weak and unresponsive.